Workplace Workouts

Office exercise becomes efficient with desk-ready gym equipment

Implications - Although there has been an increasing emphasis on health and fitness over the last few years, there has also been a countering emphasis on longer work hours, leaving people little time to hit the gym. Alleviating this problem are office-based exercise innovations that allow consumers to actually work out at their desks. Such efficiency- and health-promoting devices are still new, but their benefits are not hard to digest: workers are getting their work done while at the same time increasing their energy and reducing their health risks.

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